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The Scottish Library and Information Council has joined a UK-wide alliance aimed at raising the profile and bargaining power ...

ST. LOUIS -- British author Jeanette Winterson has been named the recipient of the 2014 Saint Louis Literary Award. Sponsored by the Saint Louis University Library Associates, the award recognizes a ...

A new cross-sector partnership bringing together libraries has launched with the aim of speaking with a "single, stronger voice" to policymakers and government.

The Scottish Library and Information Council has joined a UK-wide alliance aimed at raising the profile and bargaining power of libraries.

The Turner Prize-winning sculptor Sir Antony Gormley, 75, has installed casts of himself from Crosby beach in Liverpool to ...

Ali Smith’s anti-war novel is the second work in the author’s two-part project that began with Gliff.

It's been nearly a decade, and the Delhi metro has quietly become a space for the literary community. People leave books behind for them to be found, read, and passed along again, finding their next ...

The publishers of Winston Churchill’s The Gathering Storm (1948), we learn, were able to correct a typo the author spotted at ...

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If we want a new generation of creative talent, we need to allow young people to take risks and learn from failure, argues ...